12Instructables2,225,451Views220CommentsOrange County, CAJoined April 27th, 2007

Hello, my name is Eddie. I'm one of those people that can't leave well enough alone so I'll inevitably take things apart and modify them to suit my needs. As evidenced from my Instructables, I've been into modding iPods lately. Feel free to contact me with ideas &amp; comments.

As someone mentioned earlier, lease returns on older EVs are now flooding the market. I picked up a 2013 Fiat 500e with only 10,000 miles on it for $7.5K on eBay. One of my best purchases ever. If you still want to make your own, be prepared to spend way more time and $$ than you think - AND you'll still end up with something inferior to what you can buy for under $10K.

There was a guy on Kickstarter a while back who came up with an adapter for an electric drill so you can sand the edges much faster. You can then use a sanding sponge.

Very cool. Some definite improvements over my original Instructable from a few years ago: https://www.instructables.com/id/Drinking-Glasses-f......now over 1M views!...

The problems with fire polishing the edges:1) You need a very hot flame to do it (oxy acetylene)2) Annealing is a MUST afterwards. Otherwise the heat from the fire polish will leave the glass extremely brittle. You'll need a kiln with a modern, programmable digital temperature control to accurately raise and lower the temperature of the glass.

The cheapest laser engraver is still a couple of thousand dollars so it is not likely something you'd find in people's garages just yet. However, they are affordable enough that you can find them at many maker spaces and schools.

OMG, this is an old one. Maybe this time it will go over 1M views. Anyway, the cutter itself has long been discontinued but there have been other products introduced since then as well as some other home made ones here on Instructables. Of course, it is much easier to laser etch your glasses now but even today not everyone has access to a laser engraver. There has also been a couple of other products introduced for sanding the edges of the glasses. I've ordered some, I'll have to do an update to this one!